Use this template for your individual self study planning and brainstorming. First think about the areas where you would like to place your focus during the institute. Then think about the tools and resources outlined on this site and how they can help you meet your goals. Once you've done some individual brainstorming we'll guide you through an activity to help you refine your goals and form a group.

What is an area where you'd like to work on personal growth? Some examples:

• Organizing online bookmarks and materials so they are easy to find
• Building a bank of photos and media to use throughout the year
• Setting up units and homework activities online
  

What is an area of student achievement where you'd like to focus? Some examples:

• Helping students master vocabulary terms.
  
• Developing units for student collaborative projects during the year

During DLSI I IV you've had a chance to explore many tools. How will you use these to support learning in your classroom?

• Studywiz
• Podcasting
• Wikis and Blogs
• Del.icio.us
• iLife
• iWork

Now record your goals for this week: The picture shown represents my journey into the great unknown! At least if I get lost I will be among the stars!

Personal Growth Goal:

• I want to find additional on line activities and resources to bring the real world into my classroom. I found this year that my students are much more focused when they can see that they will ever use this information in their real life. I hate the question "When will we ever use this?"
• I want to organize my bookmarks with my delicious so that I can find the needed websites before the unit is finished.
• I want to find additional online resources for use in class.
  

Student Achievement Goal:

• I want the students to see the relevance of chemistry in their lives.
  
• I want them to figure out the idea rather than my telling them.
  
• I want them to "take ownership" of their learning.
• I want to do more challenge based and additional inquiry based lessons.
  

Use this chart to jot down ideas for any of these tools. Feel free to add your own tools to the chart too.

	How would this assist in meeting my personal goal?	How would this assist in meeting my student achievement goal?
Studywiz
Podcasting	I want to create more podcasts to share information with my students at home freeing up classroom time for student collaboration.	I want the students to create podcasts through which they can share information with their peers.
Wikis and Blogs	I want to create wikis and blogs that will allow my students to communicate with one another and with me.	I want the students to be able to collaborate at home as well as in the classroom using wikis and blogs.
Del.icio.us	I want to use Delicious to organize my webpages and online activities to use in the classroom. I need to create groupings for my online resources to make them easier to find.	I want to use this resource to enable my students and me to share online resources that either of use have found.
iLife
iWork	I want to set up an area on glogster where I can allow students to share their information.	I want my students to use glogs to share information with their classmates and then to evaluate one anothers presentations in a nonthreatening way.
Glogster